From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T06:16:34+09:00
Subject: Re: String#clear

On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> Today I was using an Array and a String to track some info in my unit
>> tests.  I needed to clear them in the #teardown routine.  My first
>> thought was:
>>
>> [@some_arr, @some_str].each { |var| var.clear }
>>
>> I was surprised when that exploded and I had to change it to:
>>
>> @some_arr.clear
>> @some_str.replace("")
>>
>> Is there any good reason String can't have a #clear method?
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> $ irb19
> irb(main):001:0> "foo".clear
> => ""
> irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
> => "1.9.0"

Sweet:  now I'll move to the obvious follow-up question...  Why are  
we not adding this to Ruby 1.8.x?

James Edward Gray II